Alongside my colleagues, Associate Professor Francis Tyers from Indiana University Bloomington and E.M. L., from Mozilla Data Collective, we're delighted to be presenting a Special Session at Interspeech 2026 in Sydney in September 2026 on:
Safeguarding Synthetic #Speech: Ethical, Technical and Legal perspectives
You can see the Special Session website at:
https://safeguardingsyntheticspeech.org/
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There are some outstanding Special Sessions this year, and I've taken the liberty of listing them - and their organisers. Do consider submitting to the #CfP - it's rare that #Interspeech makes it to Australia and we all want to make the most of it.
#Indigenous voices in Speech Sciences and Technology
Website at: https://indigenousvoicesinterspeech.github.io/
Brought to you by Dr. Cat Kutay, Prof. Janet Wiles, A/Prof Celeste Rodríguez Louro, Dr. Ben Hutchinson, and Daan van Esch
ECT-SpeechAI: #Explainability for #Compliance and #Trust in Speech AI
Website at: https://sites.google.com/view/ect-speechai2026
Brought to you by Dr. Xiaoliang Wu, Sarah Kiden, Poppy Welch, Assistant Professor Sneha Das, Assistant Professor Zhengjun Yue, Dr. Sarenne Wallbridge, Assistant Professor Jennifer Williams, PhD
Challenges in Speech Data Collection, Curation and Annotation
Website at: https://sites.google.com/view/speech-data-cca/home
Brought to you by Mostafa Shahin, Tunde Szalay, Thomas Schaaf, Ahmed Ali, Jingyao (Jennifer) Wu, Mengyue Wu, Professor Tan Lee, Professor Mark Liberman, Professor Carlos Busso, A/Prof Beena Ahmed
Post-Training of Speech Foundation Models
Website at: https://sites.google.com/view/ptsfm
Brought to you by Yang Xiao, Xiangyu Zhang, Ziyang Ma, Siyi Wang, Jiaheng Dong, Professor Eng Siong Chng, Dr Ting Dang
CHILDSPACE: Child Home Interaction and Language Dynamics: Speech, Psychology, Affect, Computation and Environments
Website at: https://sites.google.com/view/childspace-interspeech-2026/home
Brought to you by Dr Kaveri Sheth, Dr Alejandrina Cristia, A/Prof Beena Ahmed, Assistant Professor Meg Cychosz, Dr Ting Dang, Kaya de Barbaro, Professor Carol Espy-Wilson, Rebecca Holt, Professor Herman Kamper, Marvin Lavechin, Assistant Professor Jialu Li, Ph.D., Professor Okko Rasanen, Professor Odette Scharenborg, Mostafa Shahin.
Pacific Voices 2026: Speech Science and Technology for Languages of the Pacific Ocean
Website at: https://speechresearch.auckland.ac.nz/events/pacificvoices2026/
Brought to you by: Associate Professor Peter Keegan, Dr Jesin James, Dr Isabella Shields, Dr Satwinder Singh, Dr Rolando Coto-Solano.
Queer and Trans Speech Science and Technology
Website at: https://sites.google.com/view/is-queer-trans/home
Brought to you by: Robin Netzorg, Nina Markl, Cliodhna Hughes, Juliana Francis, Francisca Pessanha.
Speech AI for All: Challenging Deficit-based approaches to Speech Science and Technology
Website at: https://sites.google.com/aimpower.org/speechai4all-at-interspeech/home
#SpeakingTogether
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